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A Guest Home of Southern Charm, Raleigh, N.C.

This week for Flashback Friday we’re publishing six postcards depicting various ‘tourist homes’ which once lined US Route 1 (Wake Forest Rd./Person St.) through Raleigh. As Raleigh is about halfway between New York and Florida, our city became a popular overnight stop-over for the traveling public.

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Demolished: The Ballentine’s Cafeteria Building

Over the course of the past few days, concrete munchers have been hard at work dismantling the building at 410 Oberlin Road in Cameron Village.

Now the building is completely razed, and new construction activity will soon be taking place near the busy intersection of Oberlin Rd. and Clark Ave.

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    • hollywoodgirl: I was thinking about the downtown hotels and how their purposes had changed over the decades, and how...
    • jayare: A lunchtime internet search for Ed V. Bedney resulted in the fact that he was a collector of matchbooks and...
    • jayare: LOL that message typed on the post card sounds like an international drug deal!
    • Raleigh Boy: Hollywoodgirl — Thanks for sharing your recollections of the Andrew Johnson Hotel with our...
    • Jimmy G: Moved to Raleigh in 1956. worked at Chiips 1966 later Hardee’s, Emma Conn to Morson to Enloe. Lived in...
    • Debbie McGhee Saelens: I went attended Hugh Morson the first part of the 9th grade (1965) before we moved to Aycock....
    • Matthew Brown: Another great article, Raleigh Boy! Thank you
    • Curt: Interesting post, Raleigh Boy. I wonder if the flag in the postcard was artistic license. Here are two Flickr...


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